Svp, Reporting Operations

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of **SVP, Reporting Operations.**

The role holder is accountable to the Head of Reporting Operations in ensuring that HSBC fulfils all its external financial and regulatory reporting requirements and provide guidance to teams in preparation and submission of reporting requirements. The role would ideally have knowledge in financial and regulatory reporting, and an understanding of the bank’s business, balance sheet and applicable regulatory pronouncements, as well as knowledge of how these are reflected in the different reporting requirements. The role requires communication to and engagement of senior management on comprehensive financial information, including analysis and explanation of key trends and performance, as well as the provision of assurance over the completeness and accuracy of the reporting outputs. The role requires continuous learning and a curious nature, to challenge existing processes and explore the use of new technologies to improve the production of reporting.

**Principal Responsibilities**
- Support the Head of Reporting operations in accurate and timely delivery of the external IFRS financial statements and PRA reporting requirements (i.e. FINREP, COREP, Pillar3, Liquidity) in accordance with defined timelines
- Supporting the sign off process by providing analysis, insights and commentaries that summarise the procedures carried out and controls exercised to review & challenge the outputs produced
- Quality of the reporting outputs that reflect the accepted regulatory policy and standards with transparent and robust control procedures that comply with required HSBC internal standards
- Lead various tactical and strategic initiatives to improve the quality of regulatory reporting and enhance the control environment as part of internal remediation programmes
- Supporting adhoc requests for regulatory information from various external and internal stakeholders
- Working closely with various stakeholders like Data Operations, Finance Change delivery and Regulatory Policy to understand, plan and deliver change initiatives including new reporting requirement
- Accurate and timely delivery, including oversight of preparation and assurance of all BAU reporting requirements (internal and external) including local consolidated statutory IFRS/local GAAP financial statements (Annual Report & Accounts and Interim Report), PRA and BOE regulatory reporting, management and liquidity reporting, plus submissions into the HSBC Group reporting processes.
- Management of the reporting processes and ensuring high quality delivery, as well as escalation, incident management, and stakeholder management around reporting.
- Delivery of commentary and variance analysis, as well as query resolution.
- Ensure that the outputs are of a high quality, and prepared in accordance with accepted regulatory and accounting policy.
- Lead various tactical and strategic initiatives to improve the quality of regulatory reporting and enhance the control environment as part of internal remediation programmes
- Responsible for monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of the controls over the reporting processes and ensuring that control design is in line with HSBC’s control framework and complies with all requirements (such as SOX).
- Works closely with Data Operations, Financial Accounting, Risk Chief Data Office, Financial Control and Finance Change Delivery teams
- Understand stakeholders' objectives, direction, priorities and challenges, managing and addressing concerns and objection

**Leadership & Teamwork**
- Assists the Head of Reporting Operations in developing a deep pool of talent with understanding of technical financial and regulatory pronouncements
- Provide understanding of how technical accounting and reporting translates into operational processes
- Adopt new ways of working such as Agile, particularly in respect of change activities, and encourage the adoption of new technology within the reporting teams
- Working closely with various stakeholders like Data Operations, Finance Change delivery and Accounting and Regulatory Policy to understand, plan and deliver change initiatives including new reporting requirements

Requirements

**Requirements**:

- Experienced Finance Professional with a proven track record of delivering Regulatory Reporting or Financial Reporting obligations within a large scale financial services entity with 13+ years of experience.